living resource centre court to coordinate -- they have really taken a lead on buses and making sure we get people there. we will have legislative visits, there is a rally, in march, a resource fair, it is a wonderful day. i would encourage commissioners to come if you are able, and certainly to encourage folks that you work with to come as well. you can certainly contact me directly for more information and we will be putting out e-mails far and wide. thank you. >> thank you. any other general public comment hearing none, any announcements? >> i just wanted to make note of the fact that, a kind of piggybacks on something you raised earlier, president, and was reflected in the insight column on the housing affordability for aging adults. i attended, at the invitation of mayor breed, a presentation on a

300 million-dollar housing affordability bond that is going to be on the ballot this november, and she announced in concert also with the president of the board of supervisors, that she was able to procure another $200 million through the city administrator's office. there are four working groups for this ballot initiative. one of them is being headed up by annie chung from south hope -- self-help for the elderly, in one of the working groups, in particular, is seeking input for this housing affordability obligation bond for housing affordability for seniors. i think it would be a good idea if we looked into that a little more and perhaps were able to make some input as this comes to the floor. >> thank you, commissioner. any other announcements?

hearing none, motion to adjourn. >> so move. >> seconded. >> thank you, thank you very >> thank you, thank you very much.

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[roll call] >> directors, you have a courtroom. item three is a prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. the bringing and use of sound public -- sound producing electronics are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off maybe asked to leave the room. cell phones on vibrate do because microphone interferences of the board respectfully requests that they be turned off item four, approval of the minutes. there are two sets from march 19 th in the march 26 special closed session. >> is there any closed -- public comment on the minutes item? >> no. >> very good. i will entertain a motion unless there is questions about site -- sets of minutes at the same time >> motion to approve both. >> all those in favor, please say aye?

>> any opposed? >> item five is communications. >> sadly the board would like to adjourn today's meeting in honor of ray antonio he was a former president of the transport workers union local 258. and a munimobile operator himself. he had a long career in the city and county of san francisco which began in the 1960s, believe it or not, at the public utilities commission where he was a personnel clerk. he subsequently became a chance at -- transit operator and continued a long and successful career not only in that capacity but as a representative for our union local 258. he was a staff representative, executive vice president, secretary-treasurer, and served two terms as president. this is a real loss to the city and we will communicate our condolences and best wishes to his family and friends and to those of you who speak with any members of 258, please pass along personal condolences as well.

>> item five, in addition, directors, the conference in closed session scheduled for the conference with label negotiation for closed session has been cancelled for today. item six is introduction of new were in finished -- unfinished business by board members. >> all business is finished, say the board members? perfect. [laughter] director brink -- director brinkman? >> never finished. mission geneva 50 project, i got a really good briefing from two staff members which was fantastic and super helpful, but i'm still pretty upset that the transit lanes were dropped from this project, apparently at the request of the district supervisor, i want us to have an opportunity, and i know we can do this during the vision zero agenda item today, but i want my fellow directors to think about this, to think about to what extent we are going to continue to have this transportation five

dem mentality with different district supervisors. again, the red transit lanes in that project, they help not just people in that neighborhood, but they help the people in mission who have read transit lanes, and those were not universally beloved, with the people further after benefiting from those lanes. the people further injury get to benefit from the dread transit lanes out there. i want to ask that that be rocked back to the board to take another look at. honestly, if we do this safety project without the red transit lanes out there, when world we touch that street again? it will be a long time. if we don't do it now, we are missing a really, really important opportunity, and i want to ask my fellow directors to think about this idea of district supervisors squashing, watering down, stopping, making projects less good and if we think that we are okay with going forward that way. that is all. thank you. >> to clarify your request, is it -- we certainly heard you on

the grander scheme of things, is it your request that this item come back to revisit? >> yes, please. >> director rifkin, did you get that? >> i believe we will be coming this summer with legislation for the project, so we will just make sure that we have the alternative, or we can pick up that discussion at that time. it is not something you have approved or not approved yet, something coming this year. >> i worry, though, if we are not currently looking at the red transit lanes for the mission geneva project, which is now the mission geneva safety project, if the lanes aren't being discussed and aren't being socialized, and we are not doing outreach on them now. >> would you prefer an informational item sooner? >> i think so. if we don't start now and the board agrees that maybe to something we want to do, we will be really far behind on this outreach, and then it will be worse for the community because he would have talked to him

about these pedestrian safety projects and not talked about the red transit lanes and then suddenly say it read transit lanes. >> okay. >> now i will stop talking because i know i have gone too far. thank you, susan. >> director torres, please. >> nothing personal, but i object to that strategy. i do believe we are not elected from -- by the people of san francisco but appointed by the mayor. the supervisors need to have their voice heard. they represent constituents that voted for them, those constituents want their voices heard, and i believe if there is a way to strike a balance, then i am all for that, but he do believe we ought to hear the voices of everyone, especially those that are elected in an election to represent constituents, and if that is there feeling, then we need to respect that. >> very good. thank you. any further new art unfinished business? seeing none, i know that is one

thing but because i'm so simpleminded, i stay focused on these things, i know i meeting we will have the monthly report on the metro service, which i very much appreciate, and julie has done a wonderful job with that and we appreciate the information. last night i was personally caught in the castro switch issue, and i will say i was actually pleased with how quickly it was fixed once i heard it was an issue, i thought i was done and i was going to be going upstairs and taking the shuttle bus but it actually worked out, with a communications surrounding it were not great. it took a while for there to be a system announcement, it was not quick enough, and it was not informative enough. even if the announcement is that we are aware there's a problem and that the doors on your train are not shutting, trust us, we are working on it, we need that.

there is a capability for the control to issue a systemwide train and station announcement, i believe, so i would repeat this request, kudos to julie for how quickly the issue was resolved, and train service was restored, but again, if we can do anything to impress upon the control centre, whomever it is, to make a systemwide announcement, even if we don't know how long it will take to fix the problem, just so folks in the tunnel know that someone is working on it because otherwise there's just confusion and a little bit of anger, frankly okay, that is a lot of fun for -- unfinished business so we will stop now. [laughter]. >> we have the rest of our business to finish. that takes us to. >> item seven, director's report >> members of the board, members of the public and staff, i want to ask our director of attainable streets to come

forward to recognize two groups of employees who sprang into action during the recent unplanned emergency. >> good afternoon, tom maguire, sustainable streets director. i would like to ask my colleagues to join me up here. the single shop colleagues of sustainable streets, thank you. many of you remember in figure second in the afternoon, and natural gas explosion triggered a fire that engulfed a dim some restaurant on geary boulevard, at 1:00 p.m. on that wednesday afternoon, after we got those initial reports of the fire, our parking control officers and signal staff sprang into action and provided tremendous service to the public to ensure public safety before capturing, and after the fire was cleaned up. we had 17 parking control officers at an assistant director on the scene rerouting traffic even as a fire department gained control of the scene and battled the flames. after the fire was extinguished

at 4:15 p.m., we remained on the scene and supported the reroutes to make sure the 38 geary could get through during the evening rush hour and the next morning's rush hour. the cleanup from the fire was extensive and continued into the next morning. our -- our signal shop, many representatives are standing behind me, 12 members of our crew stayed all night to investigate, test and replace the signal equipment that literally burned to a crisp on that corner of geary street. i've never seen a traffic signal in quite the shape that this one was in, but they were able to get a traffic signal that was literally melted, burned and incinerated beyond recognition back to operational service in time for the next morning. many of them worked all night to get this done in some pretty cold, tough conditions, and for all their service to the city and in this incident and all the work they do, i would like you to recognize the traffic signal shop for the work they do for the city. >> absolutely.

would one of you like to speak? i would let all of you speak but then you guys would get mad at me and you'd be here all night. [laughter]. >> good afternoon, members of the board. and the manager of the traffic signal shop. as tom stated previously, the fire was unprecedented, it was unexpected, of course, and the ladies and gentlemen behind me sprang into action just like any other emergency response that they tend to every single day, so geary and parker was just an example of the hard work that our talents behind me, as well as back at the shop right now and out on the streets right now , taking care of the citizens of san francisco. i don't want to accept this other than on their behalf because they are the ones who are out there on the street each and every day, doing the hard work. they make my job a whole lot easier, so if it wasn't for the hard-working great work that they do, you probably see a lot

of issues. >> it is easy to see what you're such a respected leader. thank you for your comments. as you also, this generally works is people out there complain to us a lot and we filter it down and complain to him a lot. and usually what happens a lot with the high profile incidents. the system is the the highest incidence i have seen. it is on our way to school, so the kids saw the five mafia everything. everyone has their eyes on the effects not only did i hear no complaints about how you all responded, but i got the grantor complements at how and quick you are at ensuring safety and restoring the system to what it is. i know from what you just said that you do it every day, and i know that that goes unappreciated by many. we appreciate it. when the cameras were on and the lights were on, you guys performed really well and people actually complemented asked for

it. i was proud. good for you guys, congratulations for the award and thank you on behalf of the city. we appreciate what you do every day. [applause] >> everything else will seem a mundane after that, but a few other items. we have brought before you a number of different times the concepts of retiring our light rail vehicles early, and we even had secured some additional general fund appropriation for that a few months ago, yesterday we sent you some updated information in terms of a funding update, just a view and the public have more complete information about how this is progressing. we now have an amended budget for the total of 219 vehicles of

$1.1 billion, slightly less then the original amount we had back in 2014 which was 1.14 billion and i was only for 215 vehicles, you may recall we added the four for the arena service. we have been working with the m.t.c. as the county transportation authority to ensure funding availability and we have gotten approval from the federal transit administration for the early retirements of the breda, a lot of different steps need to be in place for this to happen, and they are largely falling into place, which we are very grateful for our partners at those funding and regulatory agencies for working with us on this pic the majority of the funding is in place, to the extent that we need more than what we got from that supplemental appropriation. we will be looking at transit sustainability fees, or other

general fund baseline revenues that we have in order to plug that gap, as i assured you when we brought that supplemental appropriation forward, we will make sure to find the funds to fully execute this pick we still don't know yet what the final number will be. the funding plan includes regional measure three. we had hundred $40 million in the regional measure three expenditure plan. designated for munimobile vehicles and facilities. however, as you know, r.m. three is tied up in a legal challenge. it is possible that there will be an additional financing cost associated with bringing other revenues forward, as we wait for the r.m. three revenues to free up, but it is something we happen working with m.t.c. closely on and they are confident that they will prevail in the r.m. three lawsuit, but until the lawsuit is dropped, all the funds are being held in

escrow. our data analysis concludes, and this is part of what we sent you and the updated cost-benefit analysis that 44 to $89 million the potential cost would be offset by up to $81 million in potential savings through reduced system overhaul and maintenance costs. not to mention many unquantifiable benefits of just getting these old cars out. >> and not having a train breakdown. >> and getting the new ones and sooner. we didn't even try to measure the benefits of that, but those are huge. even just the more hard costs that we can measure in terms of what we won't have to spend to keep these vehicles limping along makes this a cost beneficial project. so the bottom line is best case scenario, $37 million in savings , worst of $8 million.

even in the worst case, given the diminishing reliability of these trains, we think it is very well worthwhile. so we will be going forward to the county transportation authority commission next week, and they wanted to make sure that you all were current -- current on where we are, so that's why you have the documents that were sent yesterday, but again, it is a great partnership and support from the t.a., m.t.c., and the f.d.a. to support. everyone sees the benefit of doing this. that is moving forward. also. >> out of interest, what happens to the old vehicles when we retire them? is there any value recapture from those? are they sold elsewhere? what do we do with them? >> we go through the city surplus and process. we haven't done that with this vintage of train. i don't believe they are to be any significant market for them. our change themselves are unique

because of the bilevel arrangement. they may some scrap value that we may recover, but we are not anticipating any significant revenues from the surpassing of those vehicles. so on to some post- central subway milestones, starting the week from saturday the 13th, for 30 in the 45 lines will return to stockton and fourth street. we are ready made this return for the eight and the 91 back in february. we lagged the 30 in the 45 just to see how the capacity would be on the newly reopened stockton street, which is closed for the last seven years, as you know, all of these buses were coming through a tunnel then going west on stockton, down the mason,

across market, and down fifth. a very circuitous path that not only added time, were added on reliability for those very, very heavily used lines. we are happy to be getting those back to stockton and forth. we're doing in advance of having the wires that because the new buses that we have allow us to run off wire for an extended period of time. rather than wait for all the infrastructure, we want to get the benefits to our riders sooner, so we will be doing some outreach on the change, making sure we have good signage up about the stops i will be going away and updating all the audio announcements on the next system it will be great to get that straight shot south for the 30 in the 45 that they have been enjoying. we have centennial coming up the end of next week. it was on april 12th, 100 years ago that the transit service began a long term avail street.

before the service started, the area was largely unpopulated. most of the developing scheme after world war ii but a lot of it was spurred by the old taradale service a hundred years ago. it began as a short settle between westport jail -- portal and taradale and 34. extended in 1933 to run a different configuration that goes just about to the end, just about to the beach. today we have 35,000 daily trips on the old taradale. and with a project coming soon, we expect the reliability improvements to bring more riders to the line in the next couple of years. to mark the centennial next tuesday, i don't think tuesday is the next day his catch that next week we'll be having output access host social postcards along the route. the sfmta photo archive will host an exhibit of historic

photographs to commemorate the centennial from april through june. there will be dates and locations to be announced, ncl, as you know, is somewhat unique in that it is the only light in the system were most stops require the customers customized board to get off and on in the middle of a traffic lane, which is really the reason that we are doing the safety project, that will start later this year that will make it much safer, and again, i think it will make it more reliable and attractive to more riders. in advance, happy 100th to the old taradale, and will be be a better line once we get through with the next upcoming construction. then a couple of upcoming dates to note. we're almost halfway through the powered scooter share pilot program, and we are doing evaluation. we'll be bringing you an update at the next meeting, but i wanted you to know that we are hosting a community discussion

about the scooters and the permits and how they have worked or not worked tonight from -- from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the community centre at 1010 mission street in south of market. this is part of what we talked about when we brought the authorization for your approval that we would have feedback before determining what to do at the end of the six months. tonight, as well as the feedback that we've gotten along the way, will be a way for us to hear from the community, any concerns , things they like about the program. we will take that feedback and incorporate it into whatever we end up presenting to you next meeting. i wanted to let you know that was happening. two other events -- >> i do have a question about the scooters. >> on the scooters, i recently learned, tragically because i was the author of the block, that legislature had passed legislation to not requires

drivers to have a helmet. >> it was sponsored by bird, one of his companies. they went to work in sacramento and got that law passed gives our objection. >> right are we going to assess and some point with the cost will be in terms of liability, or will the insurance that we require these companies to interview on the clients be enough to cover our liability the c liability has been a big topic of discussion. it has been a particular sort point on the program that oakland is trying to develop. we can bring you information on that. we do have pretty stringent liability insurance requirements as part of our parents requirements, but that does not necessarily stop someone from suing the city. so we can try to speak to you that eighties passed that law, motorcycle accidents are causing

at least a million in intensive care unit medical, and that was in the eighties. i can only imagine the cost is higher today. >> we have been working with the department of public health and they have modified their data collection at san francisco general hospital so they now are gathering data at a finer grained, including on scooter collisions that present at the hospital, so we have a little bit of data on that, but since we have been up and running for a relatively short period of time and with a very limited number of scooters, we don't have a lot of data here yet, but it is very concerning and very unfortunate, i think that that law passed. >> thank you. >> just two other upcoming events i wanted you to know about. walk to work day is coming up on april 10th. we have, as you know, with your support, improved intersections with high visibility across socks -- crosswalks, major construction efforts,

reconfigured intersections to make pedestrian environments not just more friendly, but safer, the walk to work today -- day is a way to show off all that and invite people to experience a different way to get to work than many people usually take by walking. this is an event sponsored by walk san francisco. it features support hub stations throughout the city to cheer commuters with free beverages, coat tokens and contest for longest walking commute, most interesting site, and best shoe billing. we will be sponsoring hub outside our agency offices, or people posting their experience with the # walk to work. i hope to see everybody out there, and then finally, the following week is bike and roll to school week. april 15th to 19th, and that is an opportunity to encourage students and their parents to find fun and healthy and sustainable ways to get to

school by walking on a scooter safely with a helmet, or on a bicycle. each year i think we get more and more engagement and support and partnership with the school district. we partner with the sponsors, it is an international movement that has been gaining a lot of steam here in san francisco, and you can learn more and register online. >> wonderful reports. how long have you been in your current position? >> coming up on eight years. >> eight years. nolan and i headed over under bet before -- of how long it would be before you save shoe bling. i think he just one but we will have to go back and check the bet. >> i almost skipped that part of the notes by thought it would be the most entertaining part. [laughter]. >> congratulations. >> you have been active for eight years, there's a lot going

on here. thank you for that reports. are there any questions for the director? his or any public comment on the director chapter report. >> yes, mary mcguire. she is the only one who has submitted a speaker card. >> mary, welcome back, always a pleasure to see you. >> i was going to talk about this in public comment, but you brought up the issue of liability and no helmets, and, you know, i see these people, summer is coming up, and people are renting these spikes, the scooters, and they're taking their families around san francisco on bikes, and they're not in the bike lanes, and they think -- it is san francisco. they don't have helmets, the kids don't have helmets, and i've seen little kids going down bay street where there is no bike lanes, and the parents are riding ahead of them, and the little kid is shaking on the bike and scared, it is unbelievable the amount of bike

traffic that comes down there to fisher ' wife, and no helmets for the little kids. and i think with the i.p.o. that i read, they will try to make their stock market tractive, so they're getting into more things like scooters and bikes, so you need to set some limits here, and if they sign -- i am thinking that they might sign something through their app, a release about the helmets, and i think if someone was injured with these companies, that may beat is handled through arbitration and hard for them to recover. i've had people in my cabs who are injured through ridesharing companies. it is hard for them to recover the cost that they have spent through the hospital. i will talk about and one public comment but i think there should

be more training for these tourists, and you need to set more restrictions and responsibilities for the companies that are renting out these and limits to how many there will be in the city. >> thank you. is there other comments from the director chapter report? roberta, i will take your silence as a no. >> yes. >> moving on, item eight, advisory council reports, neither the chair -- no one is here to make that report today. >> if i make comments on that, may i? >> we did get a letter at the last meeting, or two meetings ago, i tried to be polite, but i was nevertheless a blunt, which is usually my nature, and asked the citizens advisory committee for direct recommendation on the seating configuration for the chains and we have received that they have informed us on the two points with how their advisory committee comes out.

i suspect you and tom and julie have seen that, but i wanted to make clear that is now part of our records. i don't think we need to wait for someone to be here to tell us that. we now have that recommendation from them. >> item nine is general public comments. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the sfmta but are not on the agenda today. john part, followed by a very toronto and weiner. >> welcome. >> i feel like being a game show host because i $130,000. i am from the outer sunset, at the name of today's game show, i will call it the game of station inequality, and the team who has the most points here will win. the two contestants are hypothetically the embarcadero and folsom street, and my little corner of the world which is

called 31st and judah. eight, which stop has a 350-foot platform? that is right, 1.14 embarcadero. which station has two fully elevated and separate from street level ramps? yes, that is team embarcadero. which station has seated benches , which station has night lighting, which station has realtime communication systems and occurred -- curved rooftop with signage, that is five points for team embarcadero, and a zero points for judah and 31 st street on the end line where some of us live. so let's recap the total here, board of directors. that's ten points for the team embarcadero station and zero points for my world, which is 31 st near judah street. is complete the unsafe. folks, i know you have the plans , the ability, the

technology to build fantastic public platforms for light rail users. i ask that station inequality and this game and not be played anymore. this is not a game. i make it sounds like one. let's invest in my little area of the world. they light rail line on 31st and judah, let it be the template for your and my community's future success. thank you so much. >> thank you. very well done. >> next speaker, please. >> barry toronto followed by herbert weiner and then dave osgood. >> you are like the bonus round to this game show. >> good afternoon. usually i'm not here this much, but i've got little sleep because i can't go home and make the meeting his i'm proud that i can make the meeting and not be too tired. anyway, i want to give a shout out to philip traina. he is the deputy director, he has taken the time to return my calls, to actually work on the

capstans and to take my concerns seriously. unfortunately, first i wanted to say with the help of samantha, and scott lyons, working on this the thing is, kate torren is still living in her own fantasy world, she is still the donald trump of the taxi industry, and i am not saying this lately, because she lied to you, and she lied to us, because at the airport, we're still waiting a long time to purchase a medallion, that is because the business has gone up and they've added more cabs to the pool of eligible caps that can go through the lots more quickly, because later on at night, there are not enough affairs for the number of medallion still showing up at the airport, so please don't remove them, because it is not the impact. the impact is the number of cabs

being added to the pool by the credit union that we were not told about, and you were not told about right away. it's really not fair, and i want to say you should institute -- reinstate -- reinstitute the four day class for the new cabdrivers because they are not educated on how to work the city you would be doing the public a failure -- favor by requiring that four day class again for new cabdrivers, and so i would appreciate that you look at this issue and you also look at how can we restrict the numbers of ridesharing companies on the streets. i know is out of your hands, but if we can work together and figure it out because it is impacting our ability to work the city. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> herbert reiner -- weiner. on the 20th of march, i waited a whole hour, excuse me, for the

33 bass. there were no travel tangles, and i didn't know when and where the bus was going to come, along california street where the bus stops have been relocated, and so have the travel panels, they do not work, and it's been two months now, and i've addressed my concern about this, and they stated it was in progress, but there has been no progress about it. i waited for a whole hour. i take the best n.a.c. for -- i take the bus, and i see for. i sent an e-mail to this board, i sent it to the director of transportation, i haven't received a response yet and i

should. you stole an hour of my life and i don't appreciate it. now, riders on munimobile should have the same status that bicyclists have. we are more in number than bicyclists, and we are at least entitled to equity. this is supposed to be a transit first agency, but right now it is transit first, passengers last, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that we are -- there are more passengers than bikers. you should do something about this. this is supposed to be a transportation agency that is supposed to provide transportation for everyone, and basically, it is stacked against asked -- as, and it has been stacked against us too long. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please.

>> is this on? >> yes, welcome. >> hello, dave osgood. i have not been here before, but i knew mr. torres when i worked -- >> sorry, did you slide something to be seen on the overhead? it is up, very good. >> thanks. i worked with him on this board on a few neighborhood issues back in the day, it is good to see what can. i want to bring to your attention that there is no bike lane on howard street around maine and beal, there was always talk about upgrading a regular bike lane, but there's nothing worse than no bike lane. i don't know if you can see -- >> we have it on her screen, server. >> there you go. there is construction going on in the area now, as you can see here, they extended the sidewalk

out into the street, making the street narrower, great, we seem to be going in the wrong direction here. the problem is there is no bike lane, but there is space. you can see where that white car is, there is no markings, so cars are using it, bikes are using it, our fear is that m.t.a. staff is being very vague about what their plans are here, and it is kind of fishy. they say they will put in a white zone which equates to parking. people park in white zones, and all they say is that as soon as the temporary terminal moves, we will put in a bike lane and parking and it would be be great , but they not specific about when. for all we know, they could be

during a second presidential term, and they refused to give any specifics about priorities. you could go out there and paint the line now, there is enough space, but there is enough space or parking then the bike lane. cricket -- parking is not a priority. if they put in a white zone, you will hear from a lot of us. if someone gets hurt, there will be a really big deal. so please put in the bike lane and do the parking later. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i cabdrivers. i would like to the airport policy. by adding those 100 sexy cabs, you sabotage your own program. i have not waited at the -- by adding those 100 cabs, you

sabotage your own program. when i have -- i go and check out that lot, and it is still saying that the purchase medallions -- you really need to go out there and look at it and see the configuration. the purchased medallions are in this thing that they called a wiggle, and it is fathomless. they are waiting, i think everybody is waiting there an average of two hours, probably on average, so nothing has changed, nothing has changed, and i don't think the program will advantage the medallions to pay off the loans. you have just sabotaged your stated goal, which was that, also, i watched the hearing last week about the bike lanes, and what was addressed a lot was there's too many cars in the city, but what wasn't addressed is the element in the room that studies have been done and reported from your agency because most of those cars are at see, so i also -- barry

commented too, how many of these cyclists take cabs where the bus , or do they take the tnt when they're not writing their bike, i also want to thank philip, because we have two new transit stops. i'm so excited because we got one at fisher ' worth, and it is good visibility, and if we can enforce them and keep them out, that would be great. and the second, they moved it to the other side of third street over by the doughnut shop, which is much easier for people because they don't have across the street that way. thank you. >> thank you for the feedback, and we are excited about this cabs stance and we'll count and you guys to give us and staff feedback on how they're working, that will be very helpful. thank you so much. any further public comment on items not on the agenda?

seeing non, public comment disclosed and we'll move onto item number 10. >> item ten is a consent calendar. i have not received any requests to sever any of the items. >> two weeks. i probably just jinxed it. consent calendar? please -- is there a second? any opposed? that is a true consent calendar. >> item 11. >> item 11 is presentation discussion.

>> i'm here to give you an updated medicine the questions you ask on our ability to accelerate projects and turned hours straight our service available of ending traffic accidents. >> we need to get through our approval process faster and service of getting those projects on the ground faster.

i will take a second to explain how we got to where we are now? dr. vision zero in 20. we recently adopted the vision zero to your action strategy which looked at a wide range of activities from specific deliverables smart goals for actions all the way up to big transformative policies that would require state legislation. at the same time, we have had to officially nine fatalities this year including the basic old -- bicycle fatality and a pedestrian fatality. they underscore the need for quicker action in one particular area of the vision zero work program, which is engineering improvements to the streets. and this board and mere breed have it put that challenge in writing. the high injury network remains our guiding data framework for how we think about prioritizing our investments and where we spend the dollars that the voters have given us and that

this board has approved to use to improve our streets. in the 2019 strategy, we committed to a few specific things, 8 miles of high-impact travel lanes, bike lanes, bus lanes, things that encourage not just a safety, but encourage the moche after we will need when we reach vision zero. we promised to reduce our project delivery timelines, and we promised to get near improvements for the entire high injury network and the next five years. you asked us to say, look at the high injury network and tell me which are the most -- which of the streets that have the most likelihood of fatalities and serious injuries recurring, and to prioritize our resources immediately and not spend capital dollars a few years over long the road, again -- get out there right now and make changes first i will give you a quick

summary of the streets that are at the very top of the top. we have a high injury network, 130 miles, but obviously not every street in the network is equal in terms of -- of its rate of fatal and serious injury crashes. these are the ten streets that come to the top. and as i go through these, you will see that for most of these, we actually have a project under construction or recently completed with a couple of really important exceptions. sixth venice, market hide, gary, pulp, mission, broadway and masonic. for every street on that list, this board has taken an action the last five years to legislate major changes to traffic and parking so we can undertake a major b. construction of the street. again, you asked us how do we

get to those streets faster, how do we make sure we get to all of them before our 2024 goal? so the next map i've got here is -- shows the projects that are in design, completed, or in planning right now on the high injury network. this is a zooming of the northeast corner of the city where the recorders are most concentrated, these are streetscape projects or we have major parking and traffic changes. we also have a map, this is the whole city, again, zoom in on the northeast corner where we are making signal upgrades. places where we are changing to signal timing in -- and ways to separate vehicles from pedestrians, separate turning vehicles from pedestrians, introduce signal strategies to reduce the speed of traffic and exposure of pedestrians. so that, again is a wide range

of projects, some of those projects will be done this year, some of those projects are adjusting planning and need to go to public works or need to go to a contractor for a design, which means the improvements will not be on the street in 2019. the way we have started to think , both in the two your action strategy and especially after the call to action by the mayor earlier this spring, in terms of what we call quick build projects, so where as a major capital project can take years to deliver because it requires outreach, it requires often several years of design and bidding and awarding, and then we will cut the ribbon like we did this morning at street, and while the outcome of that design can be tweaked over time, it is set in place in concrete and it is not as reversible as a quick build project. the quick build approach is using paint and posts, tools

that can be delivered by the sfmta staff, for instance by some of the signal engineers and electricians that you met earlier today. we can be iterative, we can earn from our mistakes, we can learn what works, what gets negative spee -- feedback and make quick changes they are. we have already been doing this, so i thank you have seen, over the last nine months, improvements on townsend his, improvements at valencia, improvements on howard's. these are projects that we did not go through traditional bidding process. it's a project we did with in-house forces, and that track record leads to the question, why can't you do that on every street? that is a good question. so you asked us for a 90 day plan. the first piece of that plan is a commitment to ten quick build projects that we think we can get on the ground by the end of 2019. the projects in this list add up to 7.5 miles of projects where

they would be a significant increase in the safety of the street, the performance of the street, there's often a modal priority for bikes, but also for pedestrians, and there is no need to wait for a long and drawn out contracting process to play itself out. there is a range of features here. we have things like bay claims on fifth street, executing the road dive that you approved a few months ago on sixth street, but executing that with paint and posts, a much higher level of physical protection to an existing bike lane on alamein e. , a rapid delivery of a bike lane that we legislated on brandon street, a mile of traffic combing on california street near where a senior pedestrian was killed in the inner richmond, extended parking on howard street, a bike lane on indiana street, a road on taylor street and a to a parking

protected bike lane on the boulevard. i don't mean to imply these are the only projects that we will be delivering this year, but the spirit of the 90 day plan, the way we have been talking about the munimobile operations, bringing these forward because these are projects we think we can get done months, and some cases years earlier than we would've had the safety improvement on the street. this is the first shot at the quick build approach. [♪] -- >> in the next 90 days, you will see continued construction on some of of the long-term major capital -- major capital projects. we cut the ribbon on pulp today, so that is the first one of these to be complete, you will see continued improvements to venice, lombard, but we should be able to get to completion for quick build projects that we began in the fall on howard, townsend, and valencia, and we

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